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What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, where do we find solutions that can help us build the future that serves us all?
This 25-minute Global Oneness Project film retrospective asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves, and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.
(24 min 54 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad describes how non-violence empowers people to deal with injustice and oppression, and breaks down the barriers that prevent people from relating to each other.
Peaceworker Sami Awad describes how non-violence empowers people to deal with injustice and oppression, and breaks down the barriers that prevent people from relating to each other.
(2 min 21 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad explains how he chooses to use his anger to fuel a commitment to peace rather than violence. And, he points out, this anger is an important inspiration for engaging in change.
(1 min 49 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad explains how the narratives we grow up with influence our perceptions. Describing his work with individuals in Palestine, he says that discriminating between conditioned interpretations of situations and the real potential that is present in each moment has the power to transform a person's worldview.
(4 min 47 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad describes different levels of identification-religious belief, political affiliation, nationality-and explains why we need to make our identity as members of humanity a priority.
(4 min 25 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad points to the core essence of the Abrahamic traditions to suggest how religion can become a player for peacebuilding rather than a tool for creating animosities between people.
(3 min 5 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad explains why it is not enough to simply look for one great leader to move Palestinians toward non-violent transformation. It is more important, he says, to find the one act, the salt, that can inspire and engage the people.
(2 min 30 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad recognizes the need for a new narrative that builds mutual trust and respect between the people living in the Holy Land.
(4 min 19 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad talks about how the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is felt around the world: it is part of our shared suffering. And when healing happens there, he says, it is also reflected throughout the world.
(3 min 13 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad describes the light within every individual and the layers of dust that can cover it over. In working toward peace, he says, it is important to recognize this light in each person and address it, helping it shine more brightly.
(5 min 11 sec)
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Peaceworker Sami Awad describes the potential of an emerging understanding of peaceful coexistence to create a new reality.
(1 min 33 sec)
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In this complete interview, Peaceworker Sami Awad, speaks about the power of non-violence as a tool for healing and empowering individuals, communities and nations. Describing his work in the Holy Land, he explains why it is important to recognize those perceptions and interpretations that we have grown up with and to distinguish between them and the real potential of the moment. Awad says that it is most important to work through the heart. He suggests that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not unique but a global issue, and that the peace achieved there will also be felt around the world.
(34 min 6 sec)
